Re: Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:27:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > NTFS write support at the kernel level is not very well-tested, but
> > > > > > resizing partitions with the userspace tools is something that gets used
> > > > > > fairly frequently.
> >
> > > > > So, there is NTFS resizing user space tool ? Anything that is packaged
> > > > > in debian and we can use in d-i ?
> >
> > > > Yes, it's the tool named "ntfsresize" that the original poster was
> > > > referring to, and it's found in the ntfstools package.
> >
> > > But is not in any way related to the libntfs library ?
> >
> > Package: ntfstools
> > Source: linux-ntfs
> > Version: 1.8.0-2
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libntfs5 (>= 1.8.0)
> >
> > I haven't looked at the source to know which pieces are exposed through
> > the library or not.
>
> I say this, because on the parted mailing list, less than a week ago, it
> was claimed that libntfs didn't support resizing.
>
> Still, i wonder what the use of many outside library would mean to
> libparted and its use in debian-installer, where size matters.
libntfs doesn't support resizing at present, that is correct.
However, ntfsresize uses functionality from libntfs and cannot work without it.
Hope this clears up any confusion. (-:
Best regards,
Anton
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